January 9, 2009

Amid a U.N. shipment of “humanitarian aid” for the people of Gaza, inspectors found 38 pallets of military style uniforms:

Hidden in one of the emergency aid shipments supposed to go into the Gaza strip during the 3 hour lull in fighting, were 38 pallets of camo uniforms, green military sweaters and black fatigues. This is one of the emergency shipments intended to bring medical supplies and food to the people who need it so badly. Half the trucks brining the stuff in are UN. Half the trucks are private. I’m not certain which trucks were hauling the uniforms. They had been off loaded when I got there. The whole thing is under investigation.

January 2, 2009

Since I got back from SD I am still seeing double. When my eyes get better I am going to be blogging again soon. I might go to this but I think I am going to take care of some errands before. I guess we will see.
“Alert! Alert! Alert!
A Huge Anti Israel Rally
Tomorrow—Friday—January 2nd
11:00AM
In front of the Federal Building in Westwood LA, 11000 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood, Los Angeles
No matter where you live, please just send this message to your list and they can send it to their lists…
Please make it your utmost duty to attend!
A MUST ATTEND COUNTER RALLY IN SUPPORT OF ISRAEL
YOU, AND YOU, AND YOU MUST BE THERE!
For sure the muslims and their friends will be out in masses and we need to make sure that this time we outnumber them!
There will be over a thousand muslims and their friends protesters carrying signs that equate the national flag of Israeli to a Swastika, and calling for the elimination of the Jewish State and putting the Jews in ovens.
We need your presence, voices and please bring Israeli and American flags, loudspeakers and bullhorns! We MUST make our voices heard!
Israel is at war for its existence! The world is at full war against terror and terrorist.
Now is the best time ever for all pro-Israel Jews and Non-Jews to bring about a huge counter demonstration and get out the message of their support for Israel and for Democracy in general and against radical Islam and terror.
Now is the time for all those who have suffered from terrorism and radical Islam to come and fully support Israel.
This war Israel is now battling must trump any and all other obligations you may have, so please, we need your help! Please fulfill your duty to attend and help. This is our way of doing our Israeli Military Reserves activity for the Israeli people
(Again) Israel is losing the media war. We must all get up and get out making sure that Israel has a chance to battle the media war too.
Please forward to your network
Go to the Source: http://www.standwithus.com and ask for the signs
AGAIN: Regardless of where you live, please send this on to your e-mails list, thus creating on going “e-mail tree”
REMEMBER, WE DID IT IN THE PAST WE CAN DO IT AGAIN” You should go if you have the time and do not have to be someplace else. SD is like a third world country to me. I do not think I will be willing to go back any time soon. But it was nice to see my friends even though they are lefties.
I do not blame them I think the head of the department at the University they are studying at is great at propaganda and indoctrination, I just wish he had more sense. The lefty lies sound good if you do not know what they are really saying. I think they will wake up to the truth once they leave. I know I did.

Cross Posted at Avid Editors Insights
I got this E-mail from the JIDF. I think the UAC is leading some counter protest. I am sure Stand With Us is also counter protesting. I am going to be heading someplace for NYE but if facing up against the Islamic Lefty allence is you thing then you should be there to show your support

Dear Friends,

The ANSWER Coalition, Muslim American Society Freedom, Free Palestine Alliance, National Council of Arab Americans, and Al-Awda, International Palestine Right to Return Coalition are calling for Tuesday, December 30 to be a “National Day of Action to show solidarity with the Palestinians and to demand an immediate end to the murderous attacks carried out by the Israeli military against the people of Gaza.”

Israel supporters in these cities simply need to appear at the same times and places, in large numbers, with large signs, and megaphones to drown out the terror-supporting noise and to counter protest. They are constantly adding more cities.

Please visit this site for the latest information, and organize counter protests in your cities.

Now is the time to speak out and speak out loudly against the terrorist regimes that overwhelmingly represent Israel’s enemies and to show vocal support for Israel’s actions to defend itself. Most mainstream Jewish organizations don’t have the chutzpah or efficiency to organize counter-protests, so it’s up to you to be there, even if you go alone!

The AFP love the Jihadis IMHO. I do not trust the AFP for the news. It is funny to read there spin though. Power Line seems to think the same read this great article

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is one of the world’s most biased news agencies, especially where the Middle East is concerned. Today AFP published this helpful guide to the “key events in 2008″ relating to Gaza, Hamas and Israel:

In AFP’s narrative, the story begins with Israel imposing a blockade of Gaza in January. No mention of the rocket attacks launched by Hamas from Gaza that prompted the blockade.

The next event that the AFP finds noteworthy is Israel’s five-day “offensive” of February and March 2008, which “kills over 120 Palestinians.” No mention of the 257 rockets and 228 mortars that were fired into Israel from Gaza during the month of February alone, no mention of Hamas’ resumption of suicide bombing in February, and no acknowledgement that many of those killed were Hamas terrorists.

In June, AFP reminds us, Israel and Hamas agreed to a six-month truce. Again, context is absent, but the significance of the truce lay in Hamas’ agreement to stop launching attacks on Israel from Gaza. And for a while, it almost did. This graphic shows the number of rocket launchings on a monthly basis:

This one shows mortar attacks:

As you can see, the mortar and rocket attacks never quite stopped, but resumed in earnest last month, when they averaged around three a day. AFP helpfully explains what happened: “Israeli assault sparks resumption of Hamas rocket attacks from Gaza.” What “Israeli assault” was that? The IDF sent special forces 200 yards across the border to destroy a tunnel that had been built to facilitate the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers. Intelligence indicated that such a kidnapping was imminent:

The IDF accused Hamas of jeopardizing the truce by digging the tunnel and plotting to abduct more Israeli soldiers in the immediate future.

“The tunnel we uncovered was ready for imminent use, forcing us to act immediately,” the military source said. “We did not know where the other end of the tunnel surfaced. In light of the intelligence we received about its immediate use, plans for special forces to enter Gaza this evening after sundown were approved,” he added.

Hamas gunmen opened fire on IDF forces and Hamas fired 45 rockets into Israel the same night. AFP uncritically parrots Hamas’ pretext that Israel’s destruction of the kidnapping tunnel was the reason for its resumption of rocket and mortar attacks.

That’s it, as far as AFP is concerned, until December 19, when Hamas “ends [the] truce.” Of course, as the graphics above show, there was no truce to end by December.

The AFP says that on December 27, Israeli planes “blitz Hamas targets.” Give them credit for acknowledging the nature of the targets, but isn’t “blitz” a somewhat fraught term to describe Israel’s carefully aimed attacks?

While AFP’s summary of “key events in 2008″ is useless as a guide to what has happened in Gaza and Israel over the past year, it does accurately reflect AFP’s woefully biased coverage of that part of the world: the Middle East according to AFP.

December 29, 2008

Was there a counter protest? Iran is the biggest threat to freedom and liberty not Hamas IMHO.
From Gateway Pundit

The brutal Hamas-supporting regime sponsored a massive protest today in Tehran.
Shouting “Down with the USA” and “Down with Israel”, the demonstrators carried banners reading“Israel must be wiped off the face of the earth” and “We should all rise and destroy Israel”. (Fars News)